- Hey what's up guys, it is
great to see you all again and if you're new here, I'm Patrick and this is where I ramble
about tech and other stuff. So for the longest time, the
Samsung T5 has been the go to portable SSD drive for many
people including creators, but is there a new sheriff in town? Let's ramble. ♪ Hold on ♪ ♪ Place go wow wow when I pull up ♪ ♪ They are all made like I wants ♪ - The Samsung T5 has probably been the most popular portable SSD of the last couple of
years, and there's a couple of good reasons for that,
first of all, it's design. The T5 is a very slick looking drive that fits the same
aesthetic as you would get from a company like Apple. It's tiny and super light,
it comes in a 51 grams and it's aluminum housing
is only slightly taller and a little more narrow
than a credit card, which makes it ultra portable. You can easily stick it in your pocket or keep it in a tech pouch
like this one by peak design along with your other tech essentials. But mostly this drive
is known for its speed and its durability,
you can drop this thing a few times without fear
of immediately breaking it and more importantly it's
fast, fast enough in fact to edit videos straight off the drive so you don't have to transfer the files to your computer first which
will save you a lot of money. I work on a Mac book pro and buying internal storage directly from Apple is crazy expensive. So using an external SSD
like this means you can just buy the internal
storage you absolutely need and use these SSD drives
for everything else. Now, my Samsung T5 is only 500 gigabytes and occasionally I would fill up the drive so I decided to get a second one which is the SanDisk
Extreme that I heard a lot of good things about as well. They cost roughly the same,
we'll get to that later and in my experience the performance on these two drives is
pretty much identical. The biggest difference
is the way they look and the fact that the
SanDisk has an IP55 rating which actually makes it
dust and water resistant. It has a rubbery coding
which makes it feel like it can take a beating
and also it prevents it from sliding around on the table. And I guess the fact that
they put a key chain ring in it would demonstrate
exactly how steady it is. Just like the T5 I feel
perfectly fine tossing it into my bag without
giving it too much stock. The SanDisk comes with
only one very short USB C to USB C cable which is not always ideal. The Samsung T5 comes
with two longer cables, one USB A to USB C and one USB C to USB C, and of course it's nice
to have both options. Now I've been using and loving both drives for quite some time now and
they've never failed me once until I recently invested in a new camera which I absolutely loved but which also produces
massive video fonts and I started noticing that
my computer would struggle whenever I was editing
heavy 4K timelines straight off the drive, which is a problem because you can't really
see what you're doing. So this got me interested
in the new Samsung T7 drive which is supposedly twice as fast. So let's have a look at this new drive and see what's different. So right out of the box it looks and feels quite similar
to the original T5, it is a little taller and a little wider but also a lot thinner
and weighing 58 grams it's only seven grams heavier
than its predecessor which is negligible. Just like the T5 it comes with
two cables, USB A and USB C. I got the touch version which is why you see this little
square on the front, which is a fingerprint scanner. You can also buy it without the scanner and it will be a little bit cheaper but I like the extra layer of security. Whenever the drive is being
used, the square will light up with this blue light, which
looks pretty cool at first but it can be a little
distracting when you keep it next to you on your desk, like I do. I got the one terabyte version because of the file
sizes I'm working with. When you connect the T7 to your computer, it will already contain
the installation files for the companion app which you will need to set up your password
and your fingerprints. You'll have to go into the settings and from here you can
change the name if you want, it'll say T7 touch by default. Let's just call it Patrick T7. Then you need to make sure that the security mode is toggled on. From here you have to choose a password even if you only wanna
use the fingerprint. Now be careful because if
you forget your password you will no longer be able to change it. Once that's done, you can
register your fingerprints. You will only be able
to get into the drive using your password when
you're on your own computer, if you wanna use your
password on another machine you will have to install the
app again on that machine, you can however use your fingerprint to open the drive on any device. And now for the important
part, the speed test. Now we'll be doing two speed tests, one is the black magic
app which I have found to be pretty accurate and then
we will do a real life test in which we will copy the
same file to all three drives to see how fast each drive we'll copy it. So we'll start it with the Samsung T5, then the SanDisk, and then the T7. So on the black magic app, you select the drive you wanna test, in this case the T5 and
then simply hit start. So as you can see the T5 tops out at around 491 megabytes per second in right speed and 527 in
read speed, which is not bad. Now let's do the same
thing for the SanDisk, select the drive and go. Now keep in mind that I've been working all these drives pretty
hard for this video which will affect their performance. So this is interesting, the right speed is a lot slower at 360 and even in reed, it is
slightly outperformed by the T5. And now for the T7,
let's see if it's really that much faster. Alright, that's definitely a lot faster than the other two, 842 right
speed and 892 for reading. Now you might be wondering why it isn't reaching the 1000
megabytes per second as stated on the box. Well, that's because
the T7 gets pretty hard after it's been in use for a while and when the drive is dealing
with these thermal issues, it will slow down a little,
but it will stay consistent and even when it's slowed
down it is still much, much faster than the other two drives. So let's see what happens
when we take a file of around 26 gigs and copy the same file into each of the drives. Now, let's see what
happens when we take a file of around 26 gigs and copy the same file into each of these drives. For the purpose of the video,
let's speed it up a bit. (upbeat music) As you can see, it takes
a minute and 10 seconds to copy the file to the Samsung T5. Now let's do the same
thing for the SanDisk. (upbeat music) You'll see that it's a
little faster here than T5 which shows that the
performance varies a little bit. And now let's see if the T7
is really that much faster. (upbeat music) Wow, 30 seconds that's
more than twice as fast. So let's talk about price, if we take the one terabyte
version of each drive, the Samsung T5 currently
goes for 139 bucks. The SanDisk is a tad
more expensive at 149, you'll pay 159 for the non-touch T7 and 169 for the touch version. So is the T7 worth the extra 20 bucks, for me it's a no brainer
because the speed boost I get from the additional 20
bucks is very significant. If you already own a T5 or a
SanDisk and you haven't run into any speed issues
yet, stick with that one, if you don't own an external drive yet and you're trying to
decide which one to get, I would definitely
recommend getting the T7 if you can afford it just for the purpose of being future proof. Alright guys, for more content like this, have a browse on the channel, if you like the video, give
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